EXPLORE ALABAMA – For Adventure-Spirited Souls Looking for Something A Little Bit Different.
We consider research into American Indian history in Alabama an exciting and worthwhile endeavor. However it is painfully slow and more often than not, frustrating and inconclusive. Much history has been lost to time and many historical documents are incomplete or written for a specific audience with an intended outcome.
Nonetheless, our research continues almost daily and we share that research here with you. You are encouraged to view these pages as amateur research performed only out of a love of the subject. Your comments and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Well over a century after de Soto had secretly been buried in its lower reaches, Joliet and Marquette located and sailed halfway down the mississippi River. For the next hundred years, this inland emprire east of the Mississippi was the object of fierce contention among Europeans and between the Indian and the white man.
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Abikudshi (‘Little Abihka’). A former Upper Creek town in North Talladega County, Alabama, on the right bank of Tallahatchee Creek, 5 miles east of Coosa River. It was settled by Abihka Indians and some of the Natchez. Bartram (1775) states that the inhabitants spoke a dialect of Chickasaw, which could have been true of only a part.
Continue readingOakachoy Creek is a stream located just 9.8 miles from Alexander City, in Coosa County.
Continue readingA Map of the American Indian Nations Return To Alabama Maps Index A Map of the American Indian Nations, adjoining
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Coosada Village Coosada Village, also known as Coosada Creek, Cosauda and Coosauda. Coosada Creek comes from an 1850’s map and
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